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Award-winning director and Death Stranding NPC Guillermo del Toro’s film The Shape of Water will soon join The Criterion Collection. The new 4K Blu-ray edition releases November 26 and is available to preorder now for $35 at Amazon, a 30% discount from its $50 list price. A love story at its core–albeit a weird romance tale involving an alienated woman and a humanoid amphibian–the film brilliantly showcases del Toro’s distinctive style …

In just under a month, Joker: Folie à Deux will introduce movie fans to Lady Gaga’s incarnation of Harley Quinn opposite Joaquin Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck/Joker. While Gaga is a veteran musician and singer, this is only her third major film in a leading role. But Gaga got an unexpected education in collaborative filmmaking from Phoenix when they rewrote lines from the script during production.

“We’d very often meet in Joaquin’s trailer and sometimes we would just tear the script up and start all over,” Gaga told Vogue. “It was a really cool, liberating process.” Director and screenwriter Todd Phillips confirmed Gaga’s account and gave an example of how their process worked.

“My line about Joaquin is that he’s the tunnel at the end of the light,” said Phillips. “You think, ‘Oka…

From Software has released a new update for Elden Ring in the form of patch 1.03.2, which mainly focuses on bug fixes. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

Sharing the patch notes on its official site, the developer confirmed that this is an extension to the recently released patch 1.03–which added a collection of balance changes and additional elements–and will resolve several bugs that were found when it was pushed live.

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A new Doom game has been rumored for a while, but at Summer Game Fest, Id Software and Bethesda formally unveiled Doom: The Dark Ages, the follow-up to 2019’s Doom Eternal. The new title is set in the distant past with the Doom Slayer as a kingdom’s last hope against the hordes of Hell Come from Sports betting site VPbet . While the game’s melee weapons and dragon-riding experiences are new to the series, The Dark Ages’ directors Hugo Martin and Marty Stratton told GameSpot that the latest sequel was inspired by both Doom 1 and Doom 2.

“At the beginning of project, everybody kind of goes back and plays the original Doom,” said Stratton. “There were so many things in that original game that just have have fueled us… It…

Oscar-winner Helen Mirren has revealed that she broke a finger filming her scenes in the upcoming superhero movie Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Appearing on The Graham Norton Show, Mirren said she opted to perform some of her own stunts making the movie, and she got hurt in the process.

“I was incredibly brave and didn’t say anything or complain because I wanted to be a real stunty person,” she said (via EW). Mirren plays the villain Hespera in the Shazam sequel.

That’s all Mirren had to say about her on-set injury for Fury of the Gods. Also in the interview, Mirren said she wanted to appear in the sequel because she loved the first movie, calling it “sweet and funny.” She was drawn to it despite not being a “big superhero type person,” Mirren said.

“But I loved the idea o…

On the big screen, Nicolas Cage has taken on just about everything from deadly criminals to killer animatronics. But the one thing that scares the actor more than any made-up threat is AI. Cage recently explained some of his AI fears despite the fact that he allowed his entire body to be scanned for his upcoming Spider-Man Noir series on Prime Video and MGM+.

“They have to put me in a computer and match my eye color and change–I don’t know,” Cage told The New Yorker. “They’re just going to steal my body and do whatever they want with it via digital AI. … God, I hope not AI. I’m terrified of that. I’ve been very vocal about it. … And it makes me wonder, you know, where will the truth of the artists end up? Is it going to be replaced? Is it going to be transmogrified? Where’s t…

The latest PlayStation 5 firmware update has landed, and while it doesn’t have any massive new features or improvements, the update has some notable and useful inclusions.

First off, the update improves the data-transfer process from another PS5. Additionally, the update includes “enhanced stability” for large file transfers like video capture. Additionally, the new PS5 update improves “usability” on some screens, and makes some improvements to messages that may appear. Come from Sports betting site VPbet

You can see the full patch notes below for the December 4 PS5 firmware update, as shared on Sony’s website.

In other PlayStation news, December’s PlayStation Plus Essential titles came out on December 3…

Netflix is pumping the brakes on all future Russian projects and acquisitions as the nation’s invasion of Ukraine stretches into its seventh day. Variety was the first to report on the decision.

The streaming service had four reported original projects in the pipeline. An unnamed source close to Netflix said the company is “assessing the impact of current events.” This is the latest swift sanction from across the globe as punishment for Russia’s unprovoked military attack against Ukraine. For Netflix, the impacted productions include a series directed by Dasha Zhuk that was already filming, and another series set in the ’90s that finished filming in 2021.

As Variety also reports, The Walt Disney Company announced Monday it will similarly be paus…

Just in time for spooky season, players of The Sims 4 got their first in-depth look at the popular life sim’s macabre new Life & Death expansion pack via a trailer released by EA. While every major Sims 4 expansion brings something new to the franchise, Life & Death may take the cake as far as expansion-exclusive careers go, as it lets players step into the otherworldly shoes of none other than the Grim Reaper himself.

But clocking in for a job that revolves around telling other Sims when to permanently clock out isn’t the only off-the-wall feature included in the new expansion pack. The trailer depicts a number of wild new activities for Sims to take part in. From planning the perfect funeral to executing the last will and testament of the deceased, Th…

If you’re in the mood for classic arcade gameplay, you should check out Humble’s new At-Home Arcade Bundle, which includes side-scrolling brawlers, arcade racers, fighting games, and more Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Many of the PC games even feature split-screen multiplayer, so you can recapture some of the in-person fun of a real arcade experience.

The At-Home Arcade bundle comes in two tiers, one for $10 and the other for $15, so you can adjust your bundle to fit your budget.

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